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Goof: When President Allen is speaking to a Joint Session of Congress, Speaker Templeton is visible over her right shoulder. The Speaker of the House should be behind her left shoulder, and the Vice President (as President of the Senate) behind her right shoulder. At this point in the series, there was no Vice President, as President Allen was the previous V.P. before becoming President, so possibly there should be no one there. However, it's likely the man sitting next to the Speaker is supposed to be the President pro tempore of the Senate but he would also be in the wrong seat.

During President McKenzie's address to Congress, the scene cuts to images of the extrication of Mehdulla. The ship and aircraft in General Pollack's description of the extrication mission do not appear in the cut scenes.

Cut Scene 1: The real USS Tarawa is an Amphibious Assault Ship. The ship identified as the USS Tarawa in the cut scene is an aircraft carrier. You can see the canted flight deck and F-18 Hornets on the deck. The aircraft flying in the foreground is an SH-60, an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.

Cut Scene 2: Two UH-1 with rocket pods flying over sand dunes. The official designation for the UH-1 is the "Iroquois" but is more commonly called a "Huey". These helicopters are in a gunship configuration not the "command helicopter" that General Pollack describes.

Cut Scene 3: The helicopter in the background is a Bell Helicopter Model 407. It is a civilian model not used in U.S. military service. It looks nothing like the CH-46 that is suppose to be used to rescue Mehdulla. Dead giveaway that the aircraft is not a military helicopter; the seats are way too comfortable.

This episode made reference to Vice President Cheney and the fact that President Bridges moved from the Governor's Mansion to the Observatory (the Naval Observatory at Anapolis, official residence of the Vice President) meaning that, at the very least, the pilot is set in the year 2014.

In the credits, J. Scott Shonka is credited as Colonel Wesley, but in the episode he is wearing the silver leaf, which is the insignia for a lieutenant colonel. If he were a colonel, he should be wearing an eagle.

Goof: The President is seeing her husband and kids off while standing in front of the White House and a major mountain range is visible in the distance. However, there are no mountain ranges in the immediate D.C. area.

Polly Bergen, who begins her recurring role as the mother of the first woman President of the United States, has herself played the first female President in the 1964 movie comedy Kisses for My President.

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